Intellectual disability and the death penalty
Subtitle: current issues and controversies
By: Marc J. Tassé and John H. Blume
Contributors: Blume, John H., author
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781440840142
Subjects: Mentally ill; Commitment and detention; Capital punishment; Offenders with mental disabilities; People with mental disabilities and crime; Insanity (Law); Legal status, laws
Description: "[This] book documents the legal and clinical aspects of the issues related to intellectual disability and the death penalty. [The book]: provides a comprehensive review of the legal and clinical aspects of the death penalty and intellectual disability; offers a detailed discussion of the Supreme court decision in Atkins v. Virginia as well as a review of court decisions since that 2002 ruling; details the diagnostic issues related to determination of intellectual disability, such as the assessment of intellectual functioning, adaptive behavior, and age of onset; and shares best practices in clinical assessment and important forensic matters that must be considered."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intellectual disability and how it is diagnosed; title: A brief history of and introduction to the modern American death penalty; title: The Supreme Court and the categorical exemption from capital punishment for persons with intellectual disability : Atkins v. Virginia; title: Atkins on the ground : post-Atkins lower court decisions; title: Assessing intellectual functioning; title: Assessing adaptive behavior; title: Assessing the age of onset; title: Expert witnesses; title: The future of Atkins.